Matt helps organizations create new value by uncovering previously unidentified opportunities and working with them to build an engine to strategize for and sustain new growth and innovation. He leads our Strategic Growth & Innovation Practice globally. When necessary, he supports rapid and dramatic performance improvements for companies facing significant operational and financial challenges.
Matt’s expertise centers on understanding how corporations can pursue entirely new avenues for growth, delivering and scaling innovative concepts and businesses. He partners with clients to help them build new operating models, such as incubators and corporate venture capital arms, that let them grow and sustain their innovation programs.
In addition to his growth and innovation expertise, Matt also brings deep experience in generating performance improvements that link bold strategies and portfolio designs with full-enterprise diligence and improvement planning. He serves organizations across industries in both the private and public sectors, with a particular focus on capital-intensive industrial, energy, and materials businesses.
Examples of his recent client work include:
- helping an infrastructure enterprise redesign its innovation operating model and generate a billion-dollar portfolio of new concepts
- working with a metals producer to redesign its approach to innovation (including process and new products) around agile approaches, building a million-dollar portfolio of new concepts
- designing a materials company’s product-development strategy and tactical launch plan, including market prioritization, partnership strategy, capital expenditure, production planning, and commercialization steps
- working with an agriculture player to redefine its corporate strategy and execute a transformation to unlock billions in incremental EBITDA while launching a new business with double-digit CAGR growth
- helping an advanced electronics company redefine its corporate venture capital model to support inorganic growth and redefine its core
Prior to joining McKinsey, Matt performed academic research in materials chemistry and published more than a dozen peer-reviewed papers that continue to be cited; he also holds multiple patents.
